Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:24:47 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <5183.875820287@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:18:32 %2B0200." <9308.875819912@verdi.nethelp.no>
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In message <9308.875819912@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes: >> I have a machine with 4 of the ZNYX boards (16 ports total) doing the >> "collapsed backbone" thing. Works like a charm, and in difference >> from a cisco that would cost 10 times as much, you can run tcpdump >> and trafshow on it :-) > >Good point. However, I suspect you may not be able to route 16 ports >at full Ethernet speeds. Have you tried saturating multiple segments >with ttcp? So far that is not a concern, and in any real networks, if you were seing that level of trafic, you would upgrade to any >10Mbit/sec media RSN. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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